Game



Jan. 6. 1925. I 1,522,307

, W. H. LEWIS GAME Fild Sept. 27', 1924 Patented Jan. 6, 1925.

WILLIAM H. LEWIS, oaWEsrBRooK, CONNECTICUT.

GAME.

Application filed September 27, 1924. Serial No. 740,246.

To all 111 72 0112. it may concern:

Be it known that I, IVILLIAM I-IL LEWIS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Westbrook, in the county of Middlesex and State of Connecticut, have invented anew and useful Improvement in Games; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, and the characters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this application, and represent, in

Fig. 1 a plan view of a game constructed in accordance with my invention.

Fig. 2 a side view, partly in section, of the same.

Fig. 3 an enlarged, sectional view, showing the game-piece located over one of the perforations through whlch the ball is adapted to pass.

This invention relates to improvements in games, and particularly to games employing game-pieces, eachhaving a chamber to receive a ball, whereby thegame-pieces may be moved about from one position to another. The object of this invention is to provide a game having hazards and tortuous passages between the hazards which may be traversed by the game-plece, and the invention consists in the construction as hereinafter described and particularly recited in the claims.

In carrying out my invention, I employ a game-board 5, herein shown as round, supported in a base 6 above the bottom 7 thereof, so as to provide a retention-chamher 8 between them. Preferably, the base is provided at the center with a short post 9, upon which the board may be rocked n any desired direction. The game-board is formed with a series of perforations 10, preferably irregularly arranged so as to leave a tortuous passageway between them. Preferably, the board will bear lines 11 to indicate the starting-point of different players. The game-piece may be of any approved design and comprises a chamber 12 and preferably a flange 18. The diameter of the game-piece is greater than the diameter of the perforations 10, and the cham-. ber 12 is adapted to receive a ball 14 small. or in diameter than the diameter of the perforations 10. The game-piece is adapted to move over the surface of the board, through the tortuous passages formed by the perforations, the object of the game be ing to move a game-piece from one side of the board to the otheras far as possible without allowing the ball to pass through one of the perforations. hen the ball passes through a perforation, it leaves the game-piece over that perforation and concentric therewith. Assuming that a player starting from A moves a game-piece 15 over a perforation 16: one object of the player starting fro-m B is to move the game-piece away from the perforation 16, as shown in Fig. 1. The perforations are differently numbered, and if a game-piece is moved so as to expose any part of the perforation over which it has been located, it counts against the player to whom that particular game-piece belongs. The perforations nearest the starting-point will have the lowest numbers for the player at that side, but if the game-piece is moved past the center of the board, the count to the player increases as it approaches the perforations nearest the starting-point of the player at the opposite side of the board. Preferably and as shown, the chamber 7 will be provided at one side with a hole 19 through which the balls may escape.

I claim;

1. A game, comprising a board mounted in a base above the bottom thereof, forming a chamber between them, said board formed with perforations providing a tortuous passage between them, combined with a gamepiece adapted to move over the surface of the board, the diameter of the game-piece being greater than the diameter of the perforations, and a ball within the gamepiece adapted to move the same and of a diameter smaller than the diameter of the said perforations.

2. A game, comprising a board mounted in abase above the bottom thereof, forming a chamber between them, said board formed if? with irregularly-arranged perforations providin atortuous passage between them, combined with a game-piece adapted to move over the surface of the board, the diameter of the game-piece being greater than the diameter of the perforations, and a ball within the game-piece adapted to move the same andof a diameter smallerthan the diameter of the said perforations.

3. A game, comprising a game-board supported in a base above the bottom thereof, forming a chamber between them, said iii) base provided with a downwardly-extending, centrally-arranged post said board formed with a series of perforations forming a tortuous passage between them, a game-piece adapted to traverse said tortuous passages and of a diameter greater than the diameter of the said perforations and containing a ball smaller in diameter than the diameter of the perforations.

4. A game, comprising a fiat, perforated game-member and an imperforate bottommember, spaced apart to form a retrievingchamber, the perforations in the game-members being arranged asymmetrically to form tortuous pass-ages between them, a chambered game-piece adapted to ride over the ing witnesses.

WILLIAM H. LEWIS. WVitnesses FREDERIO C. EARLE. MALCOLM P. NICHOLS. 

